Wordsworths Gardens and Flowers - The Spirit of ParadisePevná vazba
- The first book to explore both Wordsworth's gardens and the poet's literary use of flowers- Includes rare botanical prints reproduced for the first time in several decades- Focuses on Wordsworth's…
Specifikacia Wordsworths Gardens and Flowers - The Spirit of ParadisePevná vazba
- The first book to explore both Wordsworth's gardens and the poet's literary use of flowers- Includes rare botanical prints reproduced for the first time in several decades- Focuses on Wordsworth's gardens in the English Lake District and Leicestershire- Draws extensively on hitherto unpublished manuscripts and artworks- Reproduces illustrations from early editions of WordsworthA book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise provides a vivid account of Wordsworth as a gardening poet who not only wrote about gardens and flowers but also designed - and physically worked in - his gardens. Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise is a book of two halves. The first section focuses on the gardens that Wordsworth made at Grasmere and Rydal in the English Lake